SpaceX Launch Schedule
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX has many pads, on the East Coast of the US they own SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral and LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center for their lower inclination launches. They also own SLC-4E at Vandenberg, California for their high inclination launches. Another site is also being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)
SpaceX | USAVandenberg AFB, CA, USA
June 1, 2021, midnight
Status: To Be Determined
Mission: Robotic Exploration
Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission is the first-ever mission to demonstrate the capability to deflect an asteroid by colliding a spacecraft with it at high speed – a technique known as a kinetic impactor. DART is a planetary defense-driven test of one of the technologies for preventing the Earth impact of a hazardous asteroid: the kinetic impactor. DART’s primary objective is to demonstrate a kinetic impact on a small asteroid. The binary near-Earth asteroid (65803) Didymos is the target for DART. While Didymos’ primary body is approximately 800 meters across, its secondary body (or “moonletâ€) has a 150-meter size, which is more typical of the size of asteroids that could pose a more common hazard to Earth. The DART spacecraft will achieve the kinetic impact by deliberately crashing itself into the moonlet at a speed of approximately 6 km/s, with the aid of an onboard camera and sophisticated autonomous navigation software. The collision will change the speed of the moonlet in its orbit around the main body by a fraction of one percent, enough to be measured using telescopes on Earth.
Heliocentric N/A B1063 - Flight Proven ( ) Landing Zone 4Falcon 9 Block 5 | Spaceflight GTO-C (Hakuto-R 1)
SpaceX | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
July 1, 2021, midnight
Falcon 9 Block 5 | GPS III SV05
SpaceX | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
July 31, 2021, midnight
Falcon 9 Block 5 | WorldView Legion 2
SpaceX | USAVandenberg AFB, CA, USA
Sept. 1, 2021, midnight
Falcon 9 Block 5 | WorldView Legion 1
SpaceX | USAVandenberg AFB, CA, USA
Sept. 1, 2021, midnight
Falcon 9 Block 5 | SWOT - Surface Water and Ocean Topography
SpaceX | USAVandenberg AFB, CA, USA
Sept. 1, 2021, midnight
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Axiom Space Mission
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Oct. 1, 2021, midnight
Status: To Be Determined
Mission: Tourism
This is a Crew Dragon flight for a private company Axiom Space. The mission will carry a commander professionally trained by Axiom alongside three private astronauts to and from the International Space Station. This crew will stay aboard space station for at least eight days.
Low Earth OrbitFalcon 9 Block 5 | Nova-C lunar lander
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Oct. 11, 2021, midnight
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Spaceflight GTO-2
SpaceX | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Dec. 1, 2021, midnight
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dedicated SSO Rideshare Mission 3
SpaceX | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Dec. 1, 2021, midnight
H-IIA
JDRS-1
Yoshinobu Launch Complex - Tanegashima, JapanJDRS-1 is a Japanese Data Relay Satellite.
Falcon 9 Block 5
Starlink 15
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USAA batch of 60 satellites for Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Long March 5
Chang'e 5
Wenchang - Wenchang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaChang'e 5 is China's robotic lunar sample return mission, which is set to bring back at least 2 kg of lunar soils and rock samples. The probe will ...
Falcon 9 Block 5
Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich (Sentinel-6A; Jason-CS)
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg AFB, CA, USAThe Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich and Sentinel-6B make up the Sentinel-6 mission, also known as Jason Continuity of Service (Jason-CS), which is a pa...
Electron
Return to Sender
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A - Onenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand"Return to Sender" will loft 30 satellites to a sun-synchronous orbit at 500 km altitude for a range of customers, including TriSept, Unseenlabs, S...
Vega
SEOSAT-Ingenio & Taranis
Ariane Launch Area 1 - Kourou, French GuianaSEOSAT-Ingenio is a high-resolution optical imaging mission of Spain - the flagship mission of the Spanish space strategic plan. Its mission is dev...
Falcon 9 Block 5
SpX USCV-1 (NASA Crew Flight 1)
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USASpaceX's first operational flight of manned Dragon 2 vehicle.
Atlas V 531
NROL-101
Space Launch Complex 41 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USAClassified payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office.
Long March 3
Tiantong-1-02
Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaDesigned by the CAST Institute (China Academy of Space Technology), a subsidiary of the Chinese aerospace group CASC and specialized in spacecraft ...
PSLV-DL
EOS-01 (RISAT-2BR2)
Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad - Sriharikota, Republic of IndiaEOS-1 (previously known as RISAT-2BR2) is an imaging mission of ISRO using an active SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) imager to provide continuity of...
